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Cinnamon Increases Insulin Sensitivity

What it Does

Cinnamon also reduces your serum glucose (the amount of sugar in your blood). This is good because it keeps your pancreas healthy.

Too much serum glucose creates a situation called “insulin resistance,” which works like this:

Your body gets a bunch of sugar, from soda or a candy bar. Ice cream. Whatever.

Your pancreas pumps out a bunch of insulin to help you process it.

If you do #1 too many times, your body needs more of #2 to effectively process the sugars. This spirals upward in the way an alcoholic’s tolerance increases over time.

If #3 happens too often or for too long, the stress on your pancreas damages it.

The end result of #4 is type 2 diabetes.

The triglyceride findings in that study we just talked about demonstrated how cinnamon reduces the blood sugar levels responsible for insulin resistance. But wait! There’s more!

In 2000, a study reported in Agricultural Research Magazine found that cinnamon directly reduced insulin resistance even in patients who had already developed type 2 diabetes (source).

The reduction was significant enough that the researchers suggested cinnamon extract or oil could point the way toward a way of reversing or curing the condition.

Further research into why this is true suggests that cinnamon slows how quickly your stomach processes food.

Slower food processing means your pancreas can put out insulin at a slow, steady pace. This improves insulin sensitivity by reducing the maximum amount of insulin in your system at any given time.

Why You Should Care

In case you missed the memo, diabetes is bad for you. It shortens lifespan and quality of life, and leaves you at risk for blindness, loss of limbs, gangrene infection, and heart or circulatory troubles.

It’s also specifically bad for your erectile health. The function and health of your smaller blood vessels is one of the first things to go when diabetes takes hold.

Guess which blood vessels are responsible for long, strong, powerful erections? That’s right: the ones diabetes hits the soonest and the hardest.

Cinnamon Lowers Fasting Blood Sugar

What it Does

To understand why this is important, you have to understand what fasting blood sugar is.

Testing your blood glucose (blood sugar levels) at any given time can yield artificially high numbers if you, for example, just drank a Coke or ate a Kit-Kat.

Fasting blood sugar is when you measure your blood glucose after not eating overnight. It’s the baseline for several health measurements.

A fasting blood sugar level that’s too high is an early indicator of type 2 diabetes, and it works both ways.

By that I mean that high baseline blood sugar can cause diabetes, and it an early sign of diabetes. Bottom line: you don’t want high fasting blood sugar.

And guess what reduces fasting blood sugar?

If you didn’t guess cinnamon, scroll back to the top and start all over again.

Multiple studies have found a direct relation between cinnamon dosing and reduced fasting blood sugar.

Just one example was conducted in 2013, at schools in California and Connecticut.

This was a metadata study, meaning they didn’t do any of their own research, but rather examined the results of 10 studies with a total of over 500 participants and looked for patterns (source).

And yep, they found patterns in the data showing that cinnamon dosage reduced fasting blood sugar significantly in people with type 2 diabetes.

All ten studies showed some degree of reduction, with some showing impressive results in some populations.

Some, but not all, of the studies, also saw a reduction in levels of hemoglobin A1c — a specific marker for and indicator of full-on diabetes.

The researchers suggested some possible explanations of the inconsistent results, but nobody has examined this systematically.

Even with the hemoglobin question still in the air, the general impact of cinnamon on fasting blood sugar is well-established.

Why You Should Care

Remember what I told you earlier about diabetes, and how bad it is for you? Remember all the things I said it did specifically to your erectile and sexual health?

Yup. That applies here, too.

BTW, this blood sugar research is behind the idea that cinnamon can help prevent weight gain and accelerate weight loss. Sugar and blood sugar levels are closely tied to excess weight.

Cinnamon Kills Yeast and Bacteria

What it Does

You may have heard about “gut flora.” It’s the bacteria living in your stomach that helps you digest food, along with many other things that go beyond the scope of this article.

When your gut flora is all good you’re good. When it’s out of whack, it can cause all kinds of problems.

A variety of studies have looked at how cinnamon impacts bad gut flora, and its impact as a general antibiotic or antifungal.

The researchers gave the patients cinnamon oil, then examined Candida cells in their stool. Those cells had been destroyed.

The same team later treated 60 patients whose Candida infestations had not been cured by drugs, with 72% of the patients having no Candida whatsoever after two weeks.

The remaining 28% all saw reduction in the Candida significant enough to suggest they would be Candida-free with longer treatment.

A 2011 study investigated how sixteen different oils worked against Candida. Though many oils had some impact, they found that cinnamon oil was the most destructive to the yeast and it killed bacteria as well.

This led researchers to suggest cinnamon oil as a potential agent against hospital-borne infections, even those resistant to conventional antibiotics.

Further research discovered that cinnamon’s impact as an antibacterial and antifungal is due to the active ingredient cinnamaldehyde, which directly attacks many microorganisms.

At this point, the question isn’t “does cinnamon kill yeast and bacteria?” That question has been settled.

Science is now asking “which yeasts and bacterias do cinnamon oils kill the most effectively?”

So far, that list includes:

B. cereus

C. jejuni

E. coli

Enterobacter

H. pylori

L. monocytogenes

Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis

P. aeruginosa

P. fluorescens

P. vulgaris

V. cholerae

You’ll notice three of those words — tuberculosis, cholera, and e. coli — are infections that have plagued humans for centuries. And little old cinnamon can help fight them off.

Research continues to identify new cinnamon-sensitive infections every year.